The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-15
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A future awaits the man who will make
for New York practicable noiseless cart.
The street cleaning department is now at
tempting to gather the ashes and garbage OF
the city at night. Over $50 carts are used
in the service, and the noise, as they rumble
over the payenents in the dead of night, is
exasperating to nervous person. Victims
Of insomnia gradually become used to the
thunder of trains on the elevated railways,
but new noise distlIrbs them as much as it
would persons from the quiet rural districts.
A gentleman with waxed,moustache and the
courtly manners of typical French count,
stands III an office on Park Row, hears their
complaints, and assures them that the street
cleaning department, which be represents,
Is endeavoTing to secure carts with rubber
tires that viii make no noise
Every twenty-four hours over 2,3l2 loads
Of ashes and garbage are collected in the
city, and hereafter il is TO be gathered at
night. The ash cans will be set out in the
wening, and the morning spectacle of the
collectors of rags exploring ash barrels with
ron hooks will be no longer witnessed. The
Innovation means fortune to the enterpris-
ing Italian, who asserts the contents OF the
ash carts ON the dumps, and illustrates the
tendency of the times toward monopolies
When the garbage and ashes have been col
ected the carts drive to one of the seven
teen docks on the water front of the city
known as dumping boards They are bridge
81 /Erlctures extending out over the river,
>ller them lie the Scows. into which
ZDItents of the carts are dumped.
covered with dirt, swarm over the
Ind trim the load so that the vessel
nc properly. Formerly these trim
Fere paid by the city. and their ser
bst the tax payers thousands of dol
Nbar. AN Italian contractor agreed
Ne work for nothing if allowed to col
rags and bones found in the refuse
He hired of Italian lnbOrpi.;
s& n day and made small fortune the
n<xL Ayear. A brisk competition for the
privilege of doing the unsavory work sprang
up, but the Italian outbid all competitors
aud astonished evea the city authorities by
agreeing to pay 1926 a week for the priv
lege of doing the trimming of the scows
He hires a great force of men and every
Monday morning he pays.into the city
treasury 1926. Although his employees must
work night or day at a low rate of wages,
,he supply of laborers far exceeds the de
nand There is TO them fascination about
;he work akin to the excitement of digging
gold, for at every one of the seventeen
jumping boards in the city some trimmer is
sure TO find a coin or some article of value
zach day in the year. 1t is an unwritten
but rigidly regarded law that the trimmer
owns all the money or plate that be finds
The triminers tell of one of their number
who found $4,000 negotiable bond on the
dumps. lie ceased work on the scows in
vested in real estate, and is now rich and
well dressed and moves in the upper tendon
Of Italian society.
The Italian trimmers regard with slspi-
zion structure Of corrugated iron that has
been built on the end Of a dump at the foot
of East Seventeenth street Tits crema-
Tory, and its inventor claims that il will
sorts The contents OF the carts as well rs the
s nD2lers now DO, and consume the garbage
without giving off unpleasant smoke.
Even the most perfect crenatories will
not, noweyer. f&Hf,uen q ashes ana utzefs
~eepnxs 1ye etl'E . htli ns,nioa tons 1k